Monument record 15046 - Earthworks West of Calveley Hall

<1> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Kehoe T, 01/05/2019 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

A possible moat is visible on aerial imagery published on Google Maps.

<2> Google, 2005-2023, Google Maps, Accessed c.01/05/2019 (Web Site). SCH8660.

<3> The GeoInformation Group, 2005, 1940s RAF Aerial Photographs from Operation Review, CPE UK 1935, 17/01/1947 (Aerial Photograph). SCH4608.

An area of earthworks visible on this aerial photograph. These comprise a regular L-shaped positive earthwork c.50m x c.30m and a negative linear earthwork c.5m wide and defining on three sides a square area c.60m x 70m.

<4> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 84/2, 1849 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

The tithe map depicts a long rectangular pond at the western limit of the formal gardens associated with the later hall (see CHER 262). The plot is called Hall Barn Field.

<5> Ormerod, G., 1882, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol.II p.284 (Book). SCH1389.

‘The antient hall of Calveley was pulled down between twenty and thirty years ago. The rooms were large and lofty, and the whole was surrounded by a brick wall with loop holes. There was no appearance of any moat at the time of its demolition’.

<6> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Edwards R, 03/01/2020 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

It is possible that the regular L-shaped positive earthwork is the house platform for the earlier hall. The other features may be a moat associated with an even earlier hall or the remains of a formal garden, with the large pond originally a reflecting pond.